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MINUTES June 1, 2000 5 BOARD OF HEALTH table. So, if the Talanian property wasn't a factor in this equation, would a denite have been put in there? We could not have required it. We probably would have done everything we could to encourage it. What the outcome would have been, if he met the requirements of Title V and he had to put in the required reserve area, and he didn't have to do the denite then he didn't have to do the denite. Would we have maybe thrown the same offer out on the table? Put in a denite and well waive the reserve? Possibly. Possibly. It's speculation at best at this point. The only thing that I can say factually is that because the regulation was not in place, we could not have required it, but we would have encouraged it." Mr. Dennis Mahoney stated, "We have some extreme concerns. First of all, I'm going to explain something clearly. There is no question in my mind, there shouldn't be any question in anybody's mind here and I don't believe that there is. We approached the town, worked with the town for a good nine months. We met formally and informally in front of all of the Boards. The Town of Mashpee has been supportive of our project. Our attorney, Kevin Kirrane, has worked with the Town. Our architect, Tony Ferragamo, has worked with the town. We've worked with Elias and presented him with certain facts. We went through all of the different stages even before we went forward to develop a plan and a building permit. The only issue I'm going to discuss right now is our intent. Our intent clearly, paper trail, our engineer Steve Haas, Elias... I've met with you gentlemen informally, we've never really had any definite conversations... our intention clearly, clearly was a reserve and a Title V, period. Our paperwork indicates that. Our correspondence indicates that and our permits purchased indicates that. Denitrification system, no thank you. We are a non-profit. We are not a for-profit. We're not a 99 Restaurant who's going to a quid pro quo to gain something financially. We do not gain anything from this. If we were for profit and if we were going into business and had the opportunity to offer something... I'll give you something and you give me some parking spaces...Or I'll give you this and you give me a smaller grease trap... That's not what we're about or what we do. Period. I have met with the Cape Cod Commission twice. I'm very concerned right now over the actions of the Cape Cod Commission who's requiring of all of this, the outcome with the Talanian people and the Life program. They have been extremely good to us. This town has been wonderful to us. We've worked in other towns. If they pull out, if they impose restrictions on us, if you people now impose that we do denitrification system, that cost is tremendous. We have pavement down, we could not go back and do Title V's. In two meetings with the Cape Cod Commission I spoke at both of them. One of them we urged the fact that we were going to go forward with this and that we would need some time. We gave everybody a timeframe on this. I've had several meetings with Brian Dudley. One of the last meetings I had with him I said "you tell me in three weeks what I'm going to do because this is what I intend to do." My intention is reserve, Title V on my plans, nothing else. We were ready to go forward with that. We were in the process of ordering the material to go in the ground. I appeared in front of you gentlemen one afternoon, that was probably a year ago in June, when they had the boat there, and I said the same thing at the time. It should not have been a surprise to the Cape Cod Commission. I've had little dealings with you. It concerns both us of extremely right now of what this impact is going to have on our project. And what I said at the time is, either Title V, which was acceptable to us, or if you were going to allow us to go with the Talanian project, that was a win-win situation for everybody. It helped us out financially, which is of concern to us because we are a non-profit. It also helped out the groundwater. That would have taken